Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Viewing user accounts
We can see existing user accounts, along with their superuser status, by accessing the users
table in the
system_auth
keyspace:
SELECT * FROM "system_auth"."users";
Note that the use of the period between the keyspace name and the table name simply in-
structs CQL that we'd like to look into the
system_auth
keyspace, regardless of which
keyspace, if any, has been activated by an
USE
statement.
As we can see, user accounts are stored quite transparently in the
system_auth.users
table:
You may be wondering where and how passwords are stored. These live in a separate table,
system_auth.credentials
; passwords are not stored in plain text, but rather as
bcrypt hashes.
